The splash screen font sucks !

[rthorvald]

Now we just need to rename Celestia to "C"!

... And the EDU version to C++ ...

- rthorvald

[ElChristou]

Now we just need to rename Celestia to "C"!

... And the EDU version to C++ ...

- rthorvald

Not bad!

[Chuft-Captain]

Now we just need to rename Celestia to "C"!

... And the EDU version to C++ ...

- rthorvald

or C#

[dhromed]

Ello.

I hope I'm not breaching this forum's etiquette by posting in a month point five old thread, but recently fell in love with Celestia, and wanted to do my bit.

As far as the splash goes, I was thinking along the lines of this:



I personally felt that this Saturn image posted way in the beginning had a nice iconic feel to it, as well as capturing what space is about and what Celestia is trying to convey.

I like Christou's dogtag thingy, but I have to say feel it could do with less of that fat shadow and enormous bevel.[/img]

[Cham]

Not bad ! Not bad at all ! I like it !

And I agree with you about the fat title with huge bevels.

Could you elaborate ? Maybe you could do a final version (several variations) to propose here ?

EDIT : Experiment a bit with the font spacing. But I think this one is already good.

[t00fri]

I like it, too!

Close-up views always create "dynamic feelings" and the white letters (of the right font! ) on semi-transparent ground also look very appealing.

Bye Fridger

[ElChristou]

Ello.

I hope I'm not breaching this forum's etiquette by posting in a month point five old thread, but recently fell in love with Celestia, and wanted to do my bit.

As far as the splash goes, I was thinking along the lines of this:

...

Not bad at all!

I have just a remark concerning the overall equilibrium, the slash tend to be "heavier" on the left be cause of the black corner and less luminous information on the right (the white CELESTIA increase this feeling)

I personally felt that this Saturn image posted way in the beginning had a nice iconic feel to it, as well as capturing what space is about and what Celestia is trying to convey.

I like Christou's dogtag thingy, but I have to say feel it could do with less of that fat shadow and enormous bevel.

I'd love to do something with Saturn but my machine don't render the ring's shadows... so I could not explore this kind of stuff...

The shadow on the actual splash is a bit Mac related...

Welcome to the game, I hope to see some more example of cool splash! (it's time to change the actual one for 1.5)

[dhromed]

Couple of font variations.

Christou, I see what you mean with the balance of the image, but I don't feel it's bad, and the effect doesn't seem that strong to me. Plus I've always been a sucker for off-balance compositions. I mostly just eyeball these things.

[Cham]

Very nice start !

I don't like the seriff fonts, however. The first and last one seems pretty good.

You may try inverting Saturn's orientation, also, for more equilibrium. But I don't feel that bad about this orientation too.

[dhromed]

Hey, that inverted Saturn aint so bad.



Since variation is Good For You, does anyone have more of such pretty crisp space pictures?

Hell, maybe there could be a random selection of such closeups every time Celestia starts. Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Luna, a quasar, Andromeda, Voyager, Cassini etc.

[ElChristou]

I like options 2 and 4.

Note how the balance is better with the ultra thin font.

Perso I don't like much the pseudo bevel. Perhaps a thin one on the very edge?

[t00fri]

I agree with ElChristou (aka Christophe)

Bye Fridger

[Cham]

You should also try to take a screencapture of the same orientation, in Celestia, with the sun light coming from the left.

Experiment with many combinations. It's really an art.

[dhromed]

I like options 2 and 4.

Note how the balance is better with the ultra thin font.

Perso I don't like much the pseudo bevel. Perhaps a thin one on the very edge?

Agreed on the thin font.

There's no bevel going on there. It's a flat 2px border at 25% opacity. I'll try one with a thin bright line.

[ElChristou]

I like options 2 and 4.

Note how the balance is better with the ultra thin font.

Perso I don't like much the pseudo bevel. Perhaps a thin one on the very edge?

Agreed on the thin font.

There's no bevel going on there. It's a flat 2px border at 25% opacity. I'll try one with a thin bright line.

Right, without looking with attention it looks like a all in one effect...

[dhromed]

I edited my post on the previous page, but was a bit too late and I think nobody got around to reading it:

I've grabbed a 4K texture of jupiter, and put that in the splash -- as a variation. Looks great.

I was wondering, maybe there could be a random selection of such closeups every time Celestia starts. Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Luna, a quasar, Andromeda, Voyager, Cassini etc.

[Cham]

The effect is much less interesting with Jupiter. You should concentrate on Saturn.

A random splash screen at each startup could be fun. But this is really a very low priority among the dev team, I guess.

[ElChristou]

...I've grabbed a 4K texture of jupiter, and put that in the splash -- as a variation. Looks great.

I was wondering, maybe there could be a random selection of such closeups every time Celestia starts. Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Luna, a quasar, Andromeda, Voyager, Cassini etc...

Not bad, but if we change, perso I'd like see something else than Jupiter!

Just a comment for this one, you could perform a better star background by shooting first a simple star background, Jupiter with no stars then recompose under PS... now clearly it's extra work for a tiny detail...

[Christophe]

A random splash screen at each startup could be fun. But this is really a very low priority among the dev team, I guess.

Actually, that's already available in the KDE version, along with the dynamic setting of the version and loading strings.

[dhromed]

A tweak here, a tweak there.
Slightly thicker variant of Helvetica, plus I decided to drop the translucent white bar altogether. After all, design is about what you can remove.